Random Pertinent Question
I have just scoped pictures from the Herald on Sunday and Sunday Star Times of Fashion Week. Can't print the pictures here I am referring to but:
How can New Zealand men get away with dressing so piss poorly when the women have gone to such obvious effort to look nice?
Witness Sunday Star Times, Zambesi pg39 a newly sober, serous and profesional Noelle McCarthy with long time sober Marcus Lush.
McCarthy looks like she's spent 5 hours getting ready and made 100% effort to look fabulous.
Lush is wearing a grubby looking Puma sweatshirt with a collared polo shirt underneath.
LBD night there is Angela Blomfield (Rachel from Shorters) looking her normal fabulous self. Next to her is an "Ido Drent". Wearing a t-shirt, jeans and a nylon jacket. Trash.
Judging by the pictures, all the well dressed men at Fashion Week were the All Blacks on night one, or the gay boys.
I don't know why women would let their blokes out of the house wearing some of the garb that was exhibited pictures. It's part of standards I guess.
If you have gone to the time, expense and drama that is getting dressed up, then surely the bloke can go to a bit more effort than slapping on a cheap looking pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
Introducing them to suiting could be a good start. As would the colour black. You can do a lot with black.....
How can New Zealand men get away with dressing so piss poorly when the women have gone to such obvious effort to look nice?
Witness Sunday Star Times, Zambesi pg39 a newly sober, serous and profesional Noelle McCarthy with long time sober Marcus Lush.
McCarthy looks like she's spent 5 hours getting ready and made 100% effort to look fabulous.
Lush is wearing a grubby looking Puma sweatshirt with a collared polo shirt underneath.
LBD night there is Angela Blomfield (Rachel from Shorters) looking her normal fabulous self. Next to her is an "Ido Drent". Wearing a t-shirt, jeans and a nylon jacket. Trash.
Judging by the pictures, all the well dressed men at Fashion Week were the All Blacks on night one, or the gay boys.
I don't know why women would let their blokes out of the house wearing some of the garb that was exhibited pictures. It's part of standards I guess.
If you have gone to the time, expense and drama that is getting dressed up, then surely the bloke can go to a bit more effort than slapping on a cheap looking pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
Introducing them to suiting could be a good start. As would the colour black. You can do a lot with black.....
posted by Cactus Kate at 6:29 PM
13 Comments:
oh great black ... we can all look like art gallery assistants.
I have always said that the demise of the hall mirror with which we always checked ourselves before going out was a crime. However from a male perspective there is a high percentage of woman who also need to learn dress sense... Pam Anderson's show comes to mind and also Nicky Watson. Does she really think tits are everything???
More Black??!!??. One of the many complaints out of country ladies express to me, is that we all wear too much black!!.
I agree the A.B's were all looking dapper, but remember the NZRFU actually pay people to tell them what to wear and how to dress.
New Zealand men are simply not permitted to dress well. It's a cultural taboo. Dress well and you're gay or stuck-up or have soft hands and a small cock. Me; I dress like shit; I think it's marvelous.
Isn't getting dressed up when you put the water blsater across the Red Bands?
I mentioned to my wife when we were in Milano;
"Bloody hell! I would have to spend a fortune on clothes to fit in with this city."
I try to stick with clean, well pressed clothes, clean shoes, well washed body, a hint of deodorant and to hell with the fashions.
Well, it's like I always say, it's all about competition.
All NZ needs is a substantial colony of well dressed Italian men from Northern Italy to even up the man drought and educate kiwi males by nicking off with all the kiwi women.
Oh, and a Sephora. And maybe a marble street of designer stores.
For the men, of course.
I suspect Kate means a black suit, and if that fails black trousers and presentable shirt (ie a proper collar and cuffs shirt, no pun intended, really) rather than black jeans & an accadacca t shirt.
Faux Française ,
Do you mean leering perverts leaning on mopeds in piazza's who live at home with mummy?
Thats the new italian demographic
My theory for the lack of sartorial elegance amongst the male population, is just decades of tariffs and import licensing. Good clothes were neither affordable nor available.
A decent male fashion-culture never got the chance to develop roots. Heck, by the mid-80s, sartorial elegance meant a pink shirt, brown slacks and gray zip-up shoes. What chance is there of anything developing out of that?
Wealthy European men dress well - surprise surprise. But the rest dress like chavs.
I'd disagree men other than wealthy European men dress like chavs. Having lived all over Paris for a year, I saw that those who dressed like chavs were more often than not the UK tourists. Besides, Northern Italian men are fabulously wealthy remember, Milan's up that way so's Turin, evidently no shortage of euros there.
Expat - did I space or did we visit completely different parts of Italy or something? I don't think I saw a single moped in Turin last April let alone a leering man riding one. Maybe you got lost and ended up in my old hometown aka Paris?
As for being at home with mummy in a piazza I'm sure they are. It's not uncommon in France or Germany either in fact until they have to leave to go to uni or get married. If I had to deal with that amount of bureaucracy, that housetag and finding a liveable location mummy's home wouldn't be looking so bad tbh...
I blame the mothers.
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